ITunes displays wrong iPod

I am plugging my iPod Nano into my PC at work. When I do, another iPod comes up with a different name and different contents. How can I get iTunes to recognize my iPod? My computer at work is networked to others as well.

Something I also notice, when I unplug my network LAN cable, I can then get my iPod to show up. Does that change your advice?
no, that's pointing even more strongly towards the drive letter confusion issue.
actually, in these cases an "identity swap" usually indicates a double drive letter confusion. someone else gets a drive letter confusion, and an ipod_control folder makes its way onto a network or attached hard drive. (that folder contains info like the name of the ipod.) then when you attach your ipod, there's another drive letter confusion, your itunes sees the drive with the misplaced ipod_control folder on it, and it thinks it's looking at the other ipod.
are your IT people relatively kind and amenable types, who would be prepared to change the drive letter mappings on your PC if you asked them nicely?

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The only way to get things resolved will be to restore your iPod. Since, as you imply, you've been manually managing your iPod and not keeping copies of your media on your local hard drive, you will need to recover the content from your iPod before you restore. There are plenty of threads here detailing just how to do that. If you haven't got the space then you will need to start, I guess, by buying an external drive big enough to hold all your media in one go.
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I restored my ipod touch .bt again it display as"ipod is disabled.connect to itunes'wht shall i do nw.i wanna get it back.i restored nt in my computer.help me to solve this problem !!!

i restored my ipod touch .bt again it display as"ipod is disabled.connect to itunes'wht shall i do nw.i wanna get it back.i restored nt in my computer.help me to solve this problem !!!

You have to restore the device within iTunes. You want to use the same computer that you always sync with so that you can restore your app data and settings. You can restore with any other computer, but you will lose everything on the iPod.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1212?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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